""You know for the first time, New Yorkers weren't known for being very nice to each other because they are just rushing around. Thinking about themselves, but for the first time, everybody was paying attention to the people around them.""

"It's kind of like being someone who survived cancer or a major health issue. You realize that there are no guarantees that you're going to live a full life, [so] don't leave any regrets on the table.
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"It is something that will be way in the past. It was important then and it is important today, but we will all be seen as just equal and just living our lives and trying to do the right thing and be the best person we can."

"The South Pole is one of the few places on earth that havenï¿½t been polluted by air or water. My colleagues and friends are all very carefull when it comes to protecting the environment. We couldnï¿½t litter Antarctica and had to be even more to try not harming the vegetation there."

"Boys who graduated in the same class [as me] were being snapped up by large urban newspapers easily, and some of the same places I applied to I later found boys I knew in the same class were getting, even people who were possibly less qualified."

"In my Armor Officer Basic Corps, there were 300 of us in the class and we were told that all of us were going to Vietnam. A third of the class went directly to Vietnam, and another third of the class went to Germany or Korea before going to Vietnam. The rest of us went to Army Posts in the U.S. and we were told that we would be there for three to four months before we would go to Vietnam."

"I do remember that it changed a lot of people's thinking about what was going on. It made us think about what was going on outside Richardson high school, and outside Richardson Texas and out of Texas and national and everything. At our age group, my people, who I went to school with, I don't even know if we ever talked about politics or, you know things like that, but that's all we talked about for the next few years, you know, to a certain extent."

"The look on his face had so much anger and disgust. I was confused at what I had done. I was so unsure of what I had done to make this little boy angry, but then I realized that I had spaghetti straps on."

"I was just a little old student watching everything go by, so, I did know, I mean, Edward Delgado, who I believe, became a bilingual school teacher in Houston, Texas, I think. The whole situation of life just affected me. And then after I ran for office, I saw it affecting the whole world, in terms of what I can do to change that for all kids, regardless of their color.
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"We have all this technology all the resources we have smart people, you know, but people get so caught up with their beliefs and convictions,that it's hard to break that and be like hey let's have a civilized conversation about this.
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"And the people there are like, "Wait a minute. You can't take our houses, and our money, and our culture too! and our food, and our music." They feel like it's being watered down, because people are taking on their culture, that are not even for the culture."

"Anyway at the time girls were automatically sent to study to become secretaries or seamstress' or things like that. But it was often secretary. It was normal for the adult not to ask our opinion too. It was like that."